# یك
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian یَک (yak), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾywk'), 𐫏𐫐 (yk /⁠ēwak⁠/), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *Háywah (“one”).

#### Numeral

یك • (yek)
* one, the number represented by the Arabic numeral 1 and the numerical value equal to that cardinal number
    Synonym: بر (bir)

#### Noun

یك • (yek) (definite accusative یكی (yeği), plural یكلر (yekler))
* (backgammon) the ace of dice, especially in tavla or backgammon

##### Derived terms

* یكایك (yekâyek, “one by one”)
* یكبار (yekbâr, “once”)
* یكتا (yektâ, “of a single fold”)
* یكتاز (yektâz, “that runs alone”)
* یكجا (yekcâ, “together, in one place”)
* یكدانه (yekdâne, “single-grained”)
* یكدست (yekdest, “of a single piece”)
* یكدیكر (yekdiger, “one another, each other”)
* یكران (yekrân, “pureblood horse”)
* یكسان (yeksân, “of the same appearance, alike”)
* یكسر (yekser, “all together, all at once”)
* یكسو (yeksu, “on one side”)
* یكپاره (yekpâre, “of a single piece”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: yek

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yek2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5274
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 508a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1353
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Unus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1785
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5588
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2205

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yeŋ (“sleeve”); cognate with Azerbaijani yen, Bashkir ең (yeñ), Chuvash ҫанӑ (śană), Kazakh жең (jeñ), Kyrgyz жен (jen), Turkmen ýeň, Uyghur يەڭ (yeng), Uzbek yeng and Yakut сиэх (sieq).

#### Noun

یك • (yeñ) (definite accusative یكی (yeñi), plural یكلر (yeñler))
* sleeve, the part of a garment that covers the arm, or through which the arm passes or slips
    Synonym: آستین (astin)

##### Derived terms

* یك قپاغی (yeñ kapağı, “very long cuff”)
* یكلری صیغامق (yeñleri sığamak, “to roll up one's sleeves”)
* یكلو (yeñli, “furnished with sleeves”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: yen

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yen1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5288
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 508a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1353
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Manica”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1002
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5588
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2205